One who is an assistant or second-in-command.
1 He called down to his second in command : 'Send the Isturé across.'
2 Erich was loud, but he was used to being second in command .
3 And how'd she get to be second in command at her age?
4 Bland's second in command was hanged; Bland himself was held in irons.
5 Beauregard had been detached from the East and was second in command .
6 Her second in command was a professional to the end, it seemed.
7 And that being so, Mr. Lesher is the second in command here.
8 She was second in command of the squad, McCaffrey explained to Massino.
9 He was then lieutenant-general, second in command to the Earl of Manchester.
10 By ill-luck his second in command was ill and away from work.
11 Kennedy as second in command , and W. Stephenson as surgeon and collector.
12 Scurvy attacked them all, and Mr. Poole, the second in command , died.
13 Leonid Plekhanov stared at his second in command , wet his thick lips.
14 H.C. Gregory was second in command , Ferdinand von Mueller was botanist, J.S.
15 The dummy left; the second in command cocked one ear and looked relieved.
16 J. Adams being second in command ; and they worked the different sections alternately.
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